Speech

Similar to predictive texting on your cell phone, our brains also predict what’s coming next when someone is speaking. How do our brains make these predictions? A new PLOS Biology study reveals the mechanisms in the brain’s auditory cortex involved…

Language, which is part of what makes us human, is thought to have evolved within the last 100,000 years or so. Bolstering this relatively recent timeline, conventional wisdom holds that nonhuman primates are not capable of producing the five vowels…